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A very symmetrical 6/26/26 to everybody!
The apple they fed to snow white wasnt poision at all it was just a red delicious
FIRST PERSON TO BE FUNCTIONALLY CURED’ OF SICKLE CELL VIA GENE THERAPY!!!
Black man named Daniel Cressy!! (23) in Louisiana has been the first person cured!! (Happy Black News!!!)
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23-year-old Daniel Cressy celebrated this remarkable milestone surrounded by Governor Jeff Landry, Congressman Troy Carter, Mayor Helena Mor

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“postmortem decay set in SERIOUSLY quickly”
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The Blue Castle Book Club: Chapter 14
The Blue Castle: Ch 10-15
I'm so glad this book club lets us play catch up on the weekends! And this set of chapters was perfect for one week - we start with Valancy letting, "herself go with a wild, inner exultation," and ended with her walking out the door to Roaring Abel's. Now that's character progression!
I enjoy Valancy saying exactly what she's always thought and doing as she pleases, and it's especially satisfying against the backdrop of the first chapters. We've felt the smallness of her life and the pressure of her relations to a point where we feel exaltation in their comeuppance as well. Her flabbergasted relatives are a delight, in the increasingly distressed family conclaves. They play so true to Valancy's initial descriptions of all of them - proving her quiet and overlooked, but perceptive.
But Valancy is also right when she's reflecting that it's such a small satisfaction to get out of what's left of her life and I'm glad Roaring Abel wandered in to give her another outlet.
And how odd that Barney Snaith keeps wandering into her thoughts...
Blue Castle book club - chapter fifteen
"Let us be calm,” said Uncle Benjamin. “Let us be perfectly calm.” “Calm!” Mrs. Frederick wrung her hands.
This opening line always make me laugh
Then Doss herself came down with her little satchel, dressed in her green serge suit. I felt a terrible premonition. I can’t tell you how it was, but I seemed to know that Doss was going to do something dreadful.” “It’s a pity you couldn’t have had your premonition a little sooner,” said Uncle Benjamin drily.
Wheezing
Also, I'm surprised Valancy has a green outfit - I thought her family didn't let her wear colours? Is it just a very bland shade of green that doesn't count as a colour?
Your character will be gone for ever if you go to Roaring Abel’s to wait on a bad girl like Sis Gay.’ And she said, ‘I don’t believe Cissy was a bad girl, but I don’t care if she was.’ ... “‘Cissy Gay is dying,’ she said, ‘and it’s a shame and disgrace that she is dying in a Christian community with no one to do anything for her. Whatever she’s been or done, she’s a human being.’”
You tell them Valancy!!
Mrs. Frederick saw that she must stop crying if she wanted to regain control of the conversation.
What characterization
“And she didn’t even take her flannel petticoat!” lamented Cousin Stickles.
Cousin Stickles does have a bit of genuine concern for Valancy in her heart. (And she never did tell about the bannister!)
The Sterlings have the best lines - so long as you don't have to put up with them in person! 😂
For Valancy's suit: I've only seen serge as related to military clothes, so I've always imagined that drab military olive green. Very in keeping with her family's dictims!

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James Stirling going around bothering every professional in Deerwood...
I want to see Lawyer Ferguson's expression when James asks him what can be done legally about Valancy being rude to relatives and getting a job.
Finding a colorblind friendly redesign of the rainbow flag has me happy to see a pride flag for once
This is it btw :) from here
Oh my gods one exists! I have zero colour confusion here!
Approved by my dad who is missing all of his green cones and has kinda defective red ones.✅
When my mother forgets a word, she is the queen of coming up with new words. Words that would take a third National Treasure movie to fully decipher. I was talking to her yesterday, and she said this: “You know the time for los jibbities is coming up. You must be so excited!” Oh, is it time for los jibbities already? I must have missed it on my calendar. Are we celebrating something? “Of course! We should all be celebrating, shouldn’t we?” OK, so los jibbities is a happy thing. It’s not like something is giving you the heebie-jeebies, which would have been my one and only guess. “Los heebie-jeebies? Now you’re making things up...and this is my show.” You’re right. The time for los jibbities is coming up. Is this a season? “Yes, the season for love. The season for pride.” OK, los jibbities. “Yeah, sound it out.” Los…jibbities. LGBTs! “Sí, mira cuz you’re gay!” “You couldn’t just say pride season? You couldn’t just… *laughs*
HAPPY LOS JIBBITIES EVERYBODY!!!
Illustration from chapter 9
[from: Błękitny Zamek, Prószyński & S-ka 2000, illustrated by Katarzyna Karina Chmiel; all ilustrations from this edidion can be found here!]

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Okay but like not to beat the point to death but Laura Stacey really is that girl
She’s the great-granddaughter of a legendary hockey player, she bounced back and made the national team after breaking both her wrists in college, she lost gold at the Olympics and started a charity about it, she married another legendary hockey player that she fell in love with when they saw a shooting star that no one else did when they were skinny dipping with their team, they won gold at the Olympics and then had the royal wedding of Canadian women’s hockey and they have the cutest dog ever, shes alternate captain on a professional team with her wife who is the captain, they play on a line together, when she was the only captain/alternate captain not injured she led her team to first place, she leads the league in shorthanded goals this season, she scored a goal one time on her wife’s birthday when the clock showed both of their numbers, she had her knee popped back in its socket on the ice (probably) with 8 seconds left in the game then went on to assist the game winning goal in overtime that same game, she won the Walter cup with holes in her socks, anyway shes so fucking cool
theory: maud is not actually interested in writing about marriages. most of the significant adult women in her books are single/widowed/divorced. when women do get married (idk, miss lavender and miss cornelia and diana and phil and leslie and whoever) we don't see the marriages in any significant way.
we only really see two marriages: anne and gilbert's and valancy and barney's.
i'm not convinced that maud was really that interested in anne/gilbert as a married couple anyway--house of dreams really cares more about anne's relationships with captain jim, leslie, and motherhood than it does with anne/gilbert; anne of ingleside is almost entirely about the kids until the christine chapter.
valancy and barney's, on the other hand, is clearly maud's idea of a really good marriage, and yet because of the nature of the how and why they got married, it isn't a totally real marriage until the end.
i wonder if maud really believed that marriages could be happy--the only one we ever see is the one that's in the fairytale story. i've always said that other than valancy and barney, i don't find maud's romances particularly convincing because she doesn't seem interested in them for their own sake, but only as part of the heroine's journey. people get married and fall in love in her books not because she seems to find that kind of arc compelling, but because that's just what people do.
and the single women like marilla or aunt elizabeth...do any of us think that they'd be happier if they got married? do we think aunt nancy was happier before she was widowed? because i sure don't.
i wish maud been able to write a book or two about women who choose to stay single and are glad they did because i think she believed in that whether she'd admit it or not.
which raises a question for me: does she think that marriage is nonetheless necessary? is a cynical, "well, marriage sucks, but otherwise you're going to be ostracized, so pick the least objectionable option"? is it just because she was raised in the victorian era? does she view the marriage as a necessity because of societal pressure? economic pressure?
how did she feel about real single women? (some of you have read more of her diaries so you may actually know this.) does she think it's possible to be single and happy? or is the assumption that the societal pressure is so immense that you're going to be miserable if you're single?
was she too scared to consider the possibility that singleness could be happy because it was too painful to confront the idea that she could have made another choice?
i just feel bad for her because if anyone would have benefited from staying single and filling her life with friends and good work and nature, it's maud. but she doesn't seem able to even explore that in her fiction, and i find that heartbreaking.
Were people—women, especially—allowed to write stories about women who didn’t end up married in that day and age? And how difficult would it be to give such a woman a happy ending? So much of the beginning of “The Blue Castle” hinges around Valancy having no autonomy as an unmarried woman. I know the reports of the pressure on Louisa May Alcott to marry Jo off have been somewhat exaggerated, but I think there’s still some truth to them. And even if it wasn’t direct pressure from publishers or readers, societal pressures that a woman should always end up married could still have gotten deep into Montgomery’s head.
"allowed" is a tricky word in this situation. it might be hard to find a publisher, but there were writers doing it and maud had an established relationship with publishers, so perhaps she could have pulled it off after years of delivering more what was expected.
I think happiness without marriage was something LMM could envision, but she only seemed to give it to her side characters. Katherine Brooke flatly stated she didn't want to be married and had a joyful second career as a traveling secretary (Anne of Windy Poplars). Janet Royal was a successful editor in NYC, staying away from PEI because she thought everyone on the island judged her for not having a husband (Emily Climbs). I believe Susan states she never wanted to be married and she seems content with her livelihood, though she did say she would have liked to be asked and then would have turned it down (Rilla).
I wonder if it was only side characters because a publisher would pressured her to marry them off if they were the heroine, or if it was a deliberate choice on her part? (Because it didn't align to her idea of a novel's structure, it wasn't a lived experience she could relate to, it wasn't a topic of interest - so many possibilities!)